Sunday, September 4, 2016

PLAYING CARDS

Travelling in a railway train with some men who were playing
a game of cards, a Christian was asked to have a hand.

“I'm sorry,” he said, “but I have not my hands with me.”

“What do you mean?” they asked, pointing to his hands.

“These are not mine,” he said, “they belong to the Lord
Jesus Christ. When they were mine I used to play cards. But since I yielded them
to Christ, they are never employed in that way, for He has filled them for His
service.”

Rom 12:1 (ISV): “I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of
God’s mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and
pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship.”

- (moreillustrations.com)

“A deck of cards used to be called, ‘The Devil's Bible’ and
in the 17th Century it was called, ‘The Devil's Picture Book’. …No Christian
should play cards. … As far as I am concerned, I would not allow the ‘Dirty
Deck’ to desecrate my Christian home and tarnish my testimony.”- J.D. Carlson.